Blacking-box



(No Model.) G. RIDGEWAY,

' BLAGKING BOX. No., 336,748. Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

' INVENTOR WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGERIDGEXVAY, OF TOVVANDA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BLACKlNG-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,748, dated February23, 1886.

Application filed December 5, 1885. Serial No. 184,807. (No model To allwhom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE RIDGEWAY, of Towanda, in the county ofBradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new andusefullmprovement in Blacking-Boxes, of which the following is aspecification, reference be ing had to the annexed drawings, forming apart thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the blacking box withthe cover removed. Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on line w as inFig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in both thefigures of the drawmgs.

The object of my invention is to provide a blacking-box which may beused without soiling the fingers.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

The boX A is of the usual form, having a plane bottom, a, a cylindricalouter wall, I), having formed therein a bead, c, to stiffen it. To thebottom a of the box A is secured a circular rim, (1, which extendstoward the open side of the box, but terminates a short distance belowthe top of the box. The compartment 0, formed by the rim d, is filledwith blacking, while the annular space f between the rim d and the sideof the box is left empty.

The cover B is provided with a downward- ]y-projecting rim, 9, and isindented in the central part thereof, so that when the cover is in itsplace on the box, with the rim 9 outside of the upper edge of the wallof the box, the indented portion h touches the upper edge of the rim dand closes the compartment e, thus preventing the drying up of theblacking contained by the box.

when the box is taken in the hand of the user for the purpose ofremoving the blacking therefrom, the brush is prevented from coming incontact with the fingers by the outer wall of the box, which reachesabove the rim d, and is sufficiently distant from the rim to prevent thebristles of the brush from reaching the fingers.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent. is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a blacking'box formed of the boxA, provided with the rim d, attached to the bottom thereof, andforming,with the body of the box, the compartments and the annular spacef, and the cover B, having a downwardly-projecting rim,g,andindentedcentral portion, h, substan tially as herein specified.

GEORGE RIDGEWAY.

Witnesses:

O. L. HAVERLY, GEo. \V. BUCK.

